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> I wonder what made ANSI pick 509 as the limit for the length of string literals. Just a guess: In a 512 byte block, a 509 bytes long string literal would lea
by jstimpfle 5y ago
> I wonder what made ANSI pick 509 as the limit for the length of string literals.
Just a guess: In a 512 byte block, a 509 bytes long string literal would leave room for a NUL terminator and a 16-bit length field (prefix).